Article 13. Competence of internal affairs bodies Law On Prevention of Infractions

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Internal affairs bodies shall:

1) implement measures for prevention of infractions;

2) conduct preventive, informational, and legal work with the population in the sphere of prevention of infractions;

3) identify, maintain preventive records of, and take individual prevention measures against persons prone to committing infractions;

4) inform interested state bodies about persons prone to committing infractions for their social adaptation and social rehabilitation;

5) notify bodies performing guardianship or trusteeship functions about identified unlawful acts against minors;

6) deliver minors to educational organizations with a special regime of detention, as well as to minor adaptation centers for neglected and homeless children aged from three to eighteen years, and children left without parental care or persons replacing them, in case of impossibility of their timely placement, detained during the activities of internal affairs bodies;

7) refer the victim, taking into account his/her opinion, to an assistance organization or a healthcare organization;

8) organize legal training for citizens participating in Prevention of infractions;

9) interact with citizens and organizations participating in Prevention of infractions;

10) develop and approve the procedure, forms, and types of involvement of citizens participating in Prevention of infractions;

11) interact with subjects of security activities;

12) ensure the conduct of preventive measures in order to prevent the commission of infractions by convicts held in institutions of the criminal-executive (penitentiary) system and registered with probation services, as well as by persons held in pre-trial detention centers of the criminal-executive (penitentiary) system;

13) exercise an educational influence on convicts in accordance with the Penal Execution Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

14) exercise administrative supervision over persons released from institutions of the criminal-executive (penitentiary) system;

15) issue official warnings;

16) develop and publish, within their competence, scientific and educational publications in the sphere of prevention of infractions;

17) participate in the development of rules for interaction among subjects of prevention of infractions and their response to facts of infractions;

18) interact with mobile groups and family support centers on issues of identifying and organizing assistance to victims;

19) restrict or temporarily prohibit the offender from accessing or staying in dwellings, or in certain areas, if his/her presence poses a threat to the life and health of the victim and minor members of his/her family;

20) conduct preventive interviews;

21) issue protective orders;

22) petition the court to establish special requirements for the offender's behavior;

23) ensure the delivery of persons for whom the court has established special behavioral requirements to healthcare organizations for the provision of psychological assistance;

24) apply measures to ensure the safety of persons participating in criminal proceedings;

25) ensure the organization of advanced training on prevention of infractions issues for internal affairs officers;

26) exercise other powers provided for by this Law, laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan, acts of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan № 245-VIII LRK of December 30, 2025.

This Law determines legal, economic, social, and organizational bases for the activities of state bodies, the bodies of local self-government, organizations, and citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Prevention of infractions.

President

Republic of Kazakhstan

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— Has lost legal force due to the adoption of the new Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 245-VIII ZRK dated December 30, 2025, “On the Prevention of Offenses.”

Article 13. Competence of healthcare organizations The Law on the Prevention of Offenses

Healthcare organizations:

1) they promote a healthy lifestyle;

2) provide narcological, psychological, psychiatric, therapeutic and preventive care and carry out medical rehabilitation of persons in need of it;

3) carry out identification, accounting and monitoring of persons with mental and behavioral disorders (diseases), including those related to the use of psychoactive substances;

4) excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 07/03/2013 No. 124-V (effective after ten calendar days after its first official publication);

5) notify the internal affairs bodies of the facts of the treatment of persons affected by offenses and the provision of medical care to them;

6) exercise other powers provided for by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated April 29, 2010 No. 271-IV.

This Law defines the legal, economic, social and organizational bases of the activities of state bodies, local governments, organizations and citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the prevention of offenses.

President

Republic of Kazakhstan